translation, that is the distance from memphis, tennessee, all the way to st. angeles. this hurricane is huge. i want to get to bonnie schnader here with -- in addition to the size here, you read so much about this storm, and everyone seems to use the word "historic." historic storm. >> it is. late october, we're talking about a hurricane hitting some major metropolitan areas of the east coast. so many things have to happen for that to occur. and now they're off happening. let's look at this superstorm, sandy. so here's sandy, you see off the coast of north carolina. and even though we're getting the impacts now with heavy rain, the actual center still offshore. high pressure to the east over the ocean. then a really deep trough of low pressure coming from the west. normally you'd think, well, this will just push it off shore. it's doing the opposite, injecting. like a fuel injection. it's giving it more energy to pull it back on to shore. that's part of what's happening. and not only that because it will come on shore, we know that. behind it, you have some super stron